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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Günter Röck" <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	"Jean Delvare" <jdelvare@suse.com>,
	"Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hwmon/sch5627: Use common error handling code in sch5627_probe()
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:30:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e0856d8-3b2c-35f0-50a5-bfbe34615dfa@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e8a45f50-b625-ccb5-88cc-b888f57d1ca1@redhat.com>

>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 
> So you are asking people to review 60 changed lines to save 2,

A bit of object code reduction might become useful also in this case.


> that alone should be the point where you stop yourself from
> *even* sending this patch.

I proposed just another collateral evolution.


> Next time before you send a patch please carefully think if the
> saving is worth the combination of reviewers time + the risk of
> regressions (and keep in mind that both the reviewers time and
> the risk of regressions cost increase for more complex changes).

Source code transformations were integrated in other software areas
according to such a change pattern.


> As for this specific discussion, there are certain "design-patterns"
> in the kernel, goto style error handling is one of them, the pattern
> there ALWAYS is:
> Notice the fall-thoughs those are ALWAYS there, never, ever is
> there a goto after a cleanup label.

It seems that I present an unusual update suggestion as a software
design variant.


> Your patches black goto magic completely messes this up

You can view the proposal in such a way.


> and clearly falls under the CS101 rule: never use goto.

There might a target conflict with information from the section
“7) Centralized exiting of functions” in the document “coding-style.rst”.

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-13  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-12 21:23 [PATCH] hwmon/sch5627: Use common error handling code in sch5627_probe() SF Markus Elfring
2018-03-13  8:19 ` Hans de Goede
2018-03-13  8:25   ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-03-13  8:52     ` Hans de Goede
2018-03-13  9:30       ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2018-03-13 16:00   ` [PATCH] " Guenter Roeck

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